In Ocean Beach the lack of any code enforcement, compassionate or otherwise, continues to fuel health and safety concerns for the those who live there permanently. Homeless encampments on the beach, on the bluffs, litter …
September 27, 2021
Ocean Beach News & Stories
Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach – open-air insane asylums?
Feeding souls with instant DharmaDen
“Around May 2020, I started this project to showcase local San Diego talent,” says Eric Neilson of his DharmaDen mobile media production company. “With all the music venues closed at the time, we offered our …
September 16, 2021
“The guy who got snaked, stole the other one’s board and tried to kill him.”
Favorite surf spot? “The OB Jetty. The waves are really good! How long have you been surfing? I started surfing about 8 years ago. In the beginning, my dad would take me out surfing and …
August 10, 2021
Half of Novo Brazil's brewing business now kombucha
Last October, when Chula Vista beer-maker Novo Brazil Brewing Co. took over the Ocean Beach taproom previously operated by Culture Brewing Co., it had a branding decision to make. The company has been brewing beer …
July 9, 2021
Ocean Beach Meat Company finds three ways to feed you
How’s this one for timing? Shannon Nault and Bobby Kokinda signed the lease for their first food-service business at the beginning of March, 2020. Let’s just say they wound up taking more time than they’d …
June 8, 2021
Why was OB Pier report held back?
The Ocean Beach Pier has been closed since January 2021 due to storm damage yet its fate remains unknown after a report reveals it has “reached the end of its service life.” The 364-page, $700,000 …
April 19, 2021
Starfish Filipino Eatery brings something new to O.B.
Count me among the many thousands of young transplants who, upon first arriving in San Diego, took a look around the city, and all it has to offer, and decided to settle first in Ocean …
April 9, 2021
Theft from fire engine traced to Gaglione Brothers hat
On January 22, a white male climbed into a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department fire engine and took a bag from the firefighters "while they were hard at work putting out the fire," Facebooked the San …
February 2, 2021
A romantic deal makes Cesarina impossible to ignore
I’d seen enough photos to know Cesarina offers one heck of a romantic dining destination. A lot of good that does anybody now, though. Or so I thought. Truth is, in the past couple years, …
January 15, 2021
Last gasp for Famosa Slough
A favorite splash of open space in Point Loma is still being fought over. Every step towards creating affordable rental housing on the five-acre lot on the southeast corner of Nimitz and Famosa Boulevards has …
December 22, 2020
7-gill shark caught off OB Pier – the world's record?
It took Danny Reid nearly four hours to haul in his "shark of a lifetime" early Sunday evening off the Ocean Beach Pier. “It is a 7-gill shark, the actual measurement of this 7-gill is …
December 22, 2020
Sundara, an Indian kitchen with distinction
Despite being a repeat customer at plenty of all-you-can-eat Indian food buffets, I don’t yet feel as though I have eaten all I can. Though I have left most of them well satiated, from a …
December 21, 2020
Brewery taprooms don’t stay closed for long
Sorrento Valley barrel-aged sour beer-maker California Wild Ales announced last week it will be opening a taproom in Ocean Beach. Actually, it’s taking over the same Newport Avenue taproom originally opened by Helm’s Brewing, and …
December 4, 2020
Is this the end for Winstons in OB?
"This kind of announcement is not easy, especially during a stressful time like this," according to an online post from Ted Wigler at Ocean Beach nightclub Winstons. "And since there is no way to sugarcoat …
November 5, 2020
Ocean Beach trash altruist
About nine weeks ago, Cameron Reid was so fed up with the overflowing trashcans in Ocean Beach that he bought and installed cardboard trash bins and placed them around town. To this day, despite having …
August 10, 2020
Ocean Beach – San Diego's last true neighborhood
Pros and cons of berms – shelter for homeless, backwash for surfers The sand berms are up in Ocean Beach. For some it signals the beginning of winter when kids can be seen boarding down …
August 3, 2020
Loco Lopez takes brunch over the top
As breakfast burritos go, it was already going to hit every greasy morning mark: bacon, eggs, fried potatoes, and melted cheese, with a splash of avocado green. But rather than the usual flat, off-white wrapper, …
July 31, 2020
OB’s Walking On Water Cafe: Sinkers and seagulls
Fresh air! That’s the answer to catching coronavirus (if you believe those 240 scientists who claimed it can be transmitted through the air). And there’s no fresher air than here, half a mile out on …
July 16, 2020
Unemployment leads to Ocean Beach baking
In late March when stay-at-home orders were initially put into place, one item seemed to be in higher demand than toilet paper. Yeast. Because simply put, some people cannot live without their bread. Many people …
July 13, 2020
Mother's Saloon in OB is closing its doors
"We are saying goodbye to an incredible chapter in our live," posted Mother's Saloon operator Colin Wickersheim online today. "It is with much reservation and sadness that we are forced to shut our doors permanently. …
May 27, 2020